For real? I'm just laughing myself silly here. For $29.99, it might just be worth the hassle it will cause me to get it out of cutsoms hock. 'Course if the marker is made of plastic, it's probably not worth it. Doubt it's possible to channel through plastic.

Well, as merchandising goes i've seen a more tenuous connection to the show. Don't rightly recall where right now but I bet I have ... ;-)

Word to the wise BTW, if you sit down with some friends to play with one of these and you keep pushing the thing to freak people out it's crucial to know when to stop cos if and when they find out it was you all along, you WILL get punched. Trust me on this ;).

(I know it's nearly a week later but I suppose there's no chance this could've been up since April 1st ?)

That is terribly cute.
For ultra dorks (I can say that as I do have the scythe among other ultra dork pieces of my own.)
As far as ouija bords go, they do creep me out but then I just think of Morrissey in the woods singing and then everything isn't quite so bad.
It kinda reminds me of Darth Potato; it has nothing actually to do with the property but its still some how perfectly appropriate.
I approve.

This may be the most insane licensed product I've ever seen. I'm both confused and amused. Seriously doubt if I'll buy one, in fact as far as potential Buffy related products go this is about the last thing that would have been on my wish list, but... wow.

The licensing people at 20th Century Fox if she had any sense :p. I mean bloody hell, I've seen some weird and wonderful merchandising in my time (chocolate bars, Spike panties) but this really does take the biscuit.

Before I was ever involved in this fandom, my partner gave> me some Buffy-chocolate bars for Christmas, since it beautifully combined two things that I love. They tasted pretty good, and though I don't remember what they were now, the various flavours seemed to be matched to their respective characters quite well. I was amused and well-fed.

I'd be interested to hear what Joss has to say about this. I mean, licensed products are one thing, but this seems to actually be aimed specifically at people who truly believe in the supernatural, which, as I understand it, Joss kind of doesn't. I don't wanna use the word "wrong", but isn't this kind of like putting the name of a non-smoker on a pack of cigarettes?

Chocolate-wise...did Willow taste like strawberries, or was Rack lying?

Aw, so much naysaying! I am something of a Ouija connoisseur; a devious babysitter introduced me and a friend during a sleepover by having us make our own-- hours of fun entertainment. When I got my first bonafide Parker Brothers Ouija (tm), sleepovers were never the same for several years.

Since the Ouija time of my life segued nicely into the Buffy side, I would ADORE one of these boards for just about a bajillion reasons. I've actually been in the market for a nice, wood, handmade "spirit board" and I'm not even at all one of those occulty people. I just have very fond memories of the days I spent at eleven whittling stakes, stringing up garlic, and sending my sleepover friends screaming from the room by moving the dial.

I have to have this, naturally. I love it. I think the design kicks ass. And dark horse released a really nice "hellboy" ouija awhile back (solid wood WITH case) that had all the ouija collectors' attention. If only they would have gone all out for the Buffy board... However my old PB board has long since lost its dial, so consider this board definitely mine. I need it.

How bizarre. I really don't know what to make of this. Maybe it's all the ghost stories I read growing up, but I don't trust enough that there isn't bad mojo connected to the Ouija board. I wouldn't even have this in my house -- though I think it would make a hilarious conversation piece -- for fear that one day my religious mother would visit and come across it, then proceed to freak out on me.

I wonder if this is going to turn a bunch of Buffy fans into Dark Willows.

In the interests of rational enquiry i'm almost tempted to get several of these and secrete them about my house so that in a year's time either I (if I survive) or all the "bad mojo" folks (if a terrible, eldritch fate befalls me in the interim) get to jump up and down and say "I told you so" ;-).

I used a ouija board for years before I got bored with it (and the friends I used to use it with moved away.) Never saw any sort of "bad mojo," and had a lot of fun with them - even had one I made in high school wood shop, which I gave to one of those friends when they left. They're just painted pasteboard/wood/plastic, nothing any more special about the boards themselves than there is about tarot cards. Like lots of other things though, there are people who should probably stay away from them (even if their board partners are just punking them, which is 99% likely...)

I'm surprised they made chocolate bars out of our characters. To me, the "Band Candy" chocolate bars would have been a better choice. I mean, come on, what's better than turning serious people into teenagers???

Why are they even associated "Conversations with Dead People" to a ouija board? Alright, I get the title, but wouldn't be more appropriate to just say "Buffy" in general? They didn't use ouija boards in CWDP... ?